Women's Support Worker
St Pauls Shadwell
Vacancy listed 29/10/2025
Application deadline 30/11/2025
Details
Beyond the Streets is a UK charity with over 20 years’ experience of partnering with women in the sex industry, to see them safe from coercion, violence and abuse. We deliver trauma-informed, person-centred support, provide training, and create resources and reports informed by research, lived experience, and practitioner experience. 

Our ‘Direct Work’ is central to the organisation, and we are looking to recruit a new Women’s Support Worker. Taking a woman-centred approach, your role is to provide phone-based holistic support for women with complex needs who want support or to exit the sex industry. 

We are looking for someone with energy, motivation and experience of working with vulnerable adults; someone who a highly developed sense of self-awareness who can work in a gender and trauma informed way.

This role will be part of a small team of support workers, and a service manager, who deliver a call and email-based case work system. You will have frontline experience of working with individuals who experience multiple disadvantage. This might be in the VAWG sector, domestic abuse, substance misuse, mental health or counselling or direct experience of women in the sex industry. You will have a good understanding of working with vulnerable people and be aware of the need and processes around Safeguarding adults and children.

You’ll be…
  • Compassionate – communicate well with women using their chosen methods to support individuality
  • Encouraging – promote empowerment and independence where possible & encourage women to achieve personal goals
  • Supportive – provide support to ensure the safety & wellbeing of women using our services
  • Observant – monitor & report any changes in health or circumstances of women as part of safeguarding their well-being
  • Engaging – support women to engage in the local community where possible

You’ll need…
  • Good understanding of working with individuals with a variety of support needs, including social, emotional, physical and practical
  • Commitment to providing quality, women-lead support
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills including listening, reflecting, summarising and agreeing actions
  • Patience, compassion, non-judgemental and motivational attitude
  • Resilience to work with women who have often experienced trauma
  • A responsible, dedicated and flexible approach to work
  • Competent IT knowledge and computer skills
When you join, you’ll receive a structured induction and training plan, including access to all our in-house paid training. 

Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) 

Due to nature of this role in working alongside women with lived experience of violence against women, this post is restricted to female applicants under Section 9 of the Equality Act 2010.  

All roles are subject to proof of eligibility to work in the UK, satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.

To apply:
Please complete our standard application form and upload it here as part of yoru application. The application form is linked below along with the applicant pack which contains lots of useful information about the role and person specification.

We also ask every applicant to complete a short Equal Opportunities monitoring form that you can find here Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form.

We follow safe recruitment best practice, this means that there is certain information that we must receive from all applicants, as set out in our application form. However, we recognise the value of and celebrate diversity and know that this format might not be accessible for everyone so please present this information to us in a different format if that works better for you. If you require any other reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please don’t hesitate to contact us to discuss your needs and let us know how we can best support you.


Benefits

• Pension - 5% employer contribution, 3% employee contribution
• Generous annual leave - 33 days including bank holidays pro rata
• Flexible working – Our core hours are 10am to 3pm
• Family friendly policies – parental leave from day 1 of employment, an enhanced maternity pay policy and a flexi time policy as standard
• Career opportunities – develop yourself and your career in a reputable national organisation who are specialists in the VAWG sector
• Personal development allowance – to further your work-based skills and knowledge
• Cycle to work scheme – tax free allowance to buy
• Tech Buying Scheme – spread the cost of personal technology equipment and homeware across 12 months via payroll
• Travel season ticket loan scheme - an interest-free loan to enable team members to purchase a season ticket for travel between their usual place of residence and their usual place of work
• Clinical supervision – all staff are entitled to clinical supervision on request. A place to discuss work issues and challenges, and their emotional impact, on a regular basis.
• Blue light discount – a well recognized national discount card scheme. It will cost you £4.99 for two years’ membership but the discounts are large, and it’s widely accepted.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – a confidential and independent service designed to help you deal with personal and professional problems that could be affecting your home life, work life, health, and general wellbeing. EAP is available to you and to your immediate family.

Attached documents
Title File
Application Form Beyond_the_Streets_Job_Application_Form_-_New.docx
Privacy Notice Staff___Job_Applicant_Privacy_Notice_2025.pdf
How to find us How_to_find_us_(1).pdf
Applicant Pack BS_Women's_Support_Worker.pdf

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